UPDATE: Riders announce Trevon Tate extension, Ajou released for NFL chance
Jan 22, 2025
Tate is set to be the starting left tackle after Trevor Reid was released.
Can the Lou Marsh voters reconvene to vote on Canada’s athlete of the year?
Because I have to think a few of those 19 who didn’t vote for Alphonso Davies would like a re-do.
Eighteen voted for Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, while another, Regina Leader-Post scribe Rob Vanstone, voted for my second preference, Jamal Murray.
On Thursday, Davies made history as the first North American soccer player to make the FIFPRO Mens’ World 11, the top 11 players in the world as voted on by the players.
That means the 20-year-old Canadian phenom was on a list of 11 with the likes of soccer icons like Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos. Davies is also the third-youngest player to ever make the list of 11.
So add it to the already-impressive 2020 resume of Alphonso Davies, who shouldn’t have shared the athlete-of-the-year award, no matter how great a human being Duvernay-Tardif is.
Davies is the next great Canadian athlete many are just getting to know and quite possibly Canada’s 2021 athlete of the year.